Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part…

What's a sentinel, is it like a bouncer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bouncer, sentinel · What happens: be · To what, where: sentinel

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1937 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 1: a greedy wife keeps asking the flounder for more» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 sentinel	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sentinel	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sentinel	det
4	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bouncer	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sentinel	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bouncer	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bouncer	nsubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 bouncer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bouncer	det
10	bouncer	bouncer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 bouncer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a bouncer	a sentinel					tree rules
2	is	present	a sentinel					like a bouncer	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

a guard who checks everyone who comes through the big gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 guard	det
2	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 checks	nsubj
4	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 guard	acl:relcl
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 checks	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 everyone	acl:relcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gate	amod
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	present	a guard	everyone					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme
2	come	present				the big gate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through gate=Initial_Location

Option 2

a soldier who stands at the gate and watches out for trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stands	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stands	nsubj
4	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stands	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 watches	cc
9	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stands	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 watches	compound:prt
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 trouble	case
12	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a soldier			the gate			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location
2	watch out	present	a soldier not said here					for trouble	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for trouble=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a guard watching the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 guard	det
2	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watching	nsubj
3	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund	a guard	the gate					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme

Option 4

a horse at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horse	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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